TIME Ideas hosts the world's leading voices, providing commentary on events in news, society, and culture. Sign Up for Our Newsletters Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know now on politics, health, money and more. Looking at the clip above it's obvious this movie is a blip of subhuman bigotry. Yet who ever talks about this kind of discrimination? When I floundered, she exasperatedly told me that my god was called Allah, and I couldn't quite explain to her why that felt wrong. After a recent court ruling in the country, Allah can now be used only to refer to the Muslim God, and non-Muslims mainly the Malaysian Christian Catholic community and press have been banned from using it. It wasn't a name. The paradox of all this is that to be possessive of the word Allah betrays the sense of unity — tawheed — that the term embodies, and that is at the heart of monotheism.